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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: FreeBSD 1.1 gamma, ethernet card and disk cache
Message-ID: <CoLwrH.BDz@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 11:18:51 GMT
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I just installed FreeBSD 1.1 gamma on a new machine.  I have two problems:

(a) It doesn't see the ethernet card.  The card is a no-name 16-bit card,
and the chip on it is labelled "MTD900F 9352 EE".  Can anyone tell me
if this is compatible with any of the standard cards?  Its I/O address
is configurable to 300/320/340/360 and if I build a kernel with ed0 at
340 (which is what it's set to) the system hangs when it probes it.
Any suggestions (other than "buy a new card")?

(b) I've installed FreeBSD on the SCSI disk, which works, but it doesn't
see the IDE disk controller.  This is probably because the machine has
a Promise DC4030VL-2 caching disk controller.  Can I do anything about
this?

-- Richard

-- 
Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University                 R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk

"Your monkey has got it right, sir."  - HHGTTG